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Nuclear Reactor Operations Specialist
About James Mathews
During the 2012 post-Fukushima NRC review, James Mathews led the revalidation of emergency coolant injection protocols for eight Westinghouse 4-loop PWRs, replacing outdated flow assumptions with real-time thermohydraulic modeling that reduced scram-to-stabilization time by 37 seconds on average. That precision wasn’t theoretical: he’d spent 14 years inside containment buildings at Palo Verde and Vogtle, calibrating neutron flux mapping tools by hand during refueling outages, often working 16-hour shifts in Level 2 PPE while cross-checking boron concentration logs against core physics predictions. His notebooks, still archived at EPRI, contain over 2,100 handwritten entries tracking minor control rod drive mechanism anomalies, each annotated with ambient humidity, turbine backpressure, and seasonal grid-load patterns. He doesn’t speak in abstractions about 'safety culture'; he speaks in delta-T values, trip setpoint tolerances, and the exact decibel threshold at which a bearing vibration alarm becomes actionable, not advisory.
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